S&P 500 Companies Cut 400,000 Jobs in 2025 as AI Investment Absorbs the Budget

A wave of white-collar layoffs at Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft is being directly tied to reallocation of capital toward AI infrastructure.

The scale of AI-driven workforce restructuring is becoming harder to dismiss as anecdotal. @MarioNawfal reported that S&P 500 companies have cut approximately 400,000 jobs in 2025, with Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft among the most aggressive. The cuts are concentrated in white-collar roles, and the explicit rationale from multiple companies is reallocation toward AI.

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